Mike Lee

Competition must be understood as maximization of consumer welfare.

Potentially leading to less competition. Is that your position?

Our analysis of the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile should be guided by what will be best for consumers.

Ultimately, we believe that in order for a country to become prosperous, it requires good governance.

I believe that there is a real competition. I believe that we play a critical role, a positive role in terms of development, in terms of promoting ideals of respect for human rights

If the United States cuts back on some of our development efforts and our aid in Africa, we will leave a vacuum of the particularly dangerous sort that other nations or other entities might fill

I understand that bilateral aid to sub-Saharan Africa has had quite a significant bump over the last decade.

Isn't there a real slippery slope there in the sense that if we can do that...

Do you agree with that general principle?

It seems odd to me that an Attorney General could be thought not to have standing to challenge a law that requires substantial investment on the part of the State.

In response to an argument that the unfunded mandate requiring the States to expand the eligibility standards for Medicaid... you argued, as I understand it, that this was a policy argument, not a constitutional argument.

I strongly support such hearings.

I have serious concerns about the methodology--and lack of constitutional or legal authority--the administration employed in regards to our military actions in Libya.

I will give my complete support to military missions to ensure our safety and their success.

But do you believe that a change in policy, a political calculation-based policy decision should affect the way the Solicitor General operates in deciding when, whether, and under what circumstances to defend a law?

Thank you for joining us today, Ms. Cook.

It should be. It should be.

President Obama recently described those efforts as purely symbolic, and I think he also used the word 'failure'...

I want to return to an issue that you addressed briefly with Senator Lugar...

The U.S. Department of the Interior has never possessed the power to designate wilderness. That power has always been reserved and is always exercised exclusively by Congress.

As you know two-thirds of my State, the State of Utah is owned by the Federal Government.

Well, you know, you mentioned a while ago, pretty easily, I thought, on the question of privacy. You said that, well, privacy is what society says it is, basically, and how do you find that?

I think the Supreme Court has been absolutely clear in this particular area, the welfare rights area, that there is that danger that judges, unelected and unaccountable, based on their own conceptions of justice might try to write that…

Senator, if I may, I will try to address this in four points.

No, I do not, Senator.